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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (Translator)
"A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive exposA(c) which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read." "--Choice" "Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study." "--Library Journal" "A dazzling barrage of words and ideas." "--History"
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
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Eduardo H Galeano
In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expose of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"--with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of the "The Right to ...
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Soccer in Sun and Shadow
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Eduardo H Galeano, Mark Fried (Translator)
Key moments in the history of soccer from a novelist who lives in Uruguay.
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Las venas abiertas de América Latina
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The Book of Embraces
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Eduardo Galeano's is considered a passionate literary voice. In "The Book of Embraces", he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, ironic and joyful world view. The world reveals itself in a multiplicity of voices; what emerges is a brief for love, friendship, courage, perseverance ...
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Century of the Wind
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Eduardo H Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (Translator)
Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, the third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, CENTURY OF THE WIND serves up the turbulent 20th century's worth of U.S.-Latin American relations, from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA ...
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Memory of Fire V 1: Genisis
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Eduardo H Galeano, Tom Engelhardt (Editor)
A re-creation of the conquest of the Americas and Latin America, divided into two parts. In the first are the myths of pre-Columbian America; in the other, the history of America unfolds from the 15th century to 1700. Using both fictional and journalistic techniques, this modern classic can be considered both literature and history
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Genesis
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Eduardo H Galeano (Preface by), Cedric Belfrage (Translator)
From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to modern times, Galeano's "Memory of Fire" trilogy offers an outstanding Latin-American eye view of the makings of the New World, presenting "nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere . . . recounted in vivid prose" ("The New Yorker").
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Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future
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Charles Bowden, Professor Noam Chomsky (Preface by), Eduardo H Galeano (Afterword by)
100 photographs by Mexican photographers that document life on the border between Mexico and the United States.
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Memory of Fire V 2: Faces & Masks
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Eduardo H Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (Translator)
Offering an astounding Latin-American eye view of a new world in the making, this is the second volume in Galeano's epic history of the Americas.
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Voices of Time: A Life in Stories
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Eduardo Galeano, Mark Fried (Translator)
In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation to offer a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political.
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Open Veins of Latin Amer F
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Memory of Fire: V 3: Century of the Wind
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We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991
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Eduardo H Galeano, Mark Fried (Translator)
This text argues that by saying no to a global system of greed, repression and exploitation, one says yes to the universal values of equality, freedom and human dignity. It covers people and topics from the "Last Emperor" Pu Yi and Pele to the political nature of Latin American literary enterprise.
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Walking Words
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Eduardo H Galeano, Mark Fried (Translator), Jose Francisco Borges (Illustrator)
"Walking Words" is a collection of stories drawn from the folklore of the Americas. Galeano places "windows"--vignettes and assorted flotsam, often illustrating paradoxes--between the stories. The stories feature characters such as Calamity Jane, St. George, tango dancers, warlocks, shoemakers and poets. Galeano describes himself as a "Magical ...
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Days and Nights of Love and War
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Eduardo Galeano, Judith Brister (Translator)
"Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, elation and sorrow." "--The Nation" Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and ...
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Días y noches de amor y de guerra
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Eduardo H. Galeano
Traducida a las principales lenguas del mundo, la obra de EDUARDO GALEANO (Montevideo, 1940) auna la sensibilidad historica y la capacidad expresiva necesarias para rescatar del olvido la memoria de un continente asolado por la injusticia, la pobreza y la opresion.
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Las Venas Abiertas de Am'rica Latina
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Sahel: The End of the Road
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In 1984, Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, ...
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Walking Words: With Woodcuts by Jose Francisco Borges
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Eduardo H Galeano, Mark Fried (Translator), Jose Francisco Borges (Illustrator)
"Walking Words" is a collection of stories drawn from the folklore of the Americas. Galeano places "windows"--vignettes and assorted flotsam, often illustrating paradoxes--between the stories. The stories feature characters such as Calamity Jane, St. George, tango dancers, warlocks, shoemakers and poets. Galeano describes himself as a "Magical ...
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I Am Rich Potosi: The Mountain That Eats Men
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Stephen Ferry (Photographer), Eduardo H Galeano, Marguerite Holloway
The magnificent mountain of Potosi in Bolivia yielded more silver than any other mountain or region of the world. In the 16th and 17th centuries this wealth flowed through Spain into Europe and played an important role in the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and trade with Asia. Yet the grueling work of extracting the silver was left to the ...
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Memory of Fire: Vol 2-Faces &
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Unthinkable Tenderness
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Juan Gelman, Joan Lindgren (Editor), Eduardo H Galeano (Foreword by)
Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. In 2000, he received the Juan Rulfo Award, one most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world, and in 2007, he received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary prize. With this selection, chosen and ...
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Faces and masks
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Eduardo Galeano presents an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is a tangled, cataclysmic history of the hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of the present century, told through resonant and compelling characters.
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El Libro de los Abrazos
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Eduardo H Galeano
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